A4L, AfL or Assessment for Learning

I witnessed an interesting example of peer assessment yesterday. Pupils in a year 6 class had been producing a small webpage on an e-portfolio about the coast. When they were shown how to post a reflection on someone else’s page, they clearly enjoyed both looking at other pupils work and also giving them some feedback. As this was the first time pupils used these online tools, the feedback was merely positive, rather than a form of peer assessment against the success criteria given. Pupils then started to walk around the classroom, asking each other to look at their page or the comment they had made. They are now eagerly awaiting the feedback of pupils from another school, who will be looking at their pages online.